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the way tip o'neil and ronald reagan worked together. ronald reagan laid out the principles he was going to foster, lower tax rates, broaden the base, you said the same thing. simplify the tax code, broaden the base. those are my principles, i want to bring down the tax burden on middle income families. i want to work with congress on bringing down deductions. we could have a single number, $25,000, $50,000, anybody can have deductions up to that amount. and then the deductions disappear after that you could follow bowles-simpson and do it deduction by deduction. we need to bring down rates, broaden the base, simplify the code and create incentives for growth. with regard to health care, you had remarkable details with regard to my preexisting condition plan. you studied up on my plan. i do deal with people with preexisting conditions, that's part of my health care plan. what we did in massachusetts is a model for the nation state by state. and i said tt at that time. the federal government, taking over health care for the entire nation,
the way tip o'neil and ronald reagan worked together. ronald reagan laid out the principles he was going to foster, lower tax rates, broaden the base, you said the same thing. simplify the tax code, broaden the base. those are my principles, i want to bring down the tax burden on middle income families. i want to work with congress on bringing down deductions. we could have a single number, $25,000, $50,000, anybody can have deductions up to that amount. and then the deductions disappear after...
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what i do, the same way that tip o'neill and ronald reagan worked together some years ago. when ronald reagan ran for office, he laid out the principles that he was going to follow. he said he was going to lower taxes and broaden the base. you've said the same thing, those are my principles. i want to bring down the tax burden middle income families. i want to work together with congress. one way for instance would be to have a single number, make up a number. $25,000, $50,000. anybody can have deductions up to that amount. and then the number disappears for high-income people. one could follow bowles-simpson as a model. and take deduction by deduction and make differences that way. there are alternatives to accomplish the objective i have, which is to bring down rates, broaden the base, simplify the code and create incentives for growth. and with regards to health care you had remarkable details with regards to my preexisting conditions plan. you've obviously studied up on my plan. in fact, i do have a plan that deals with people with preexisting conditions. that's part of
what i do, the same way that tip o'neill and ronald reagan worked together some years ago. when ronald reagan ran for office, he laid out the principles that he was going to follow. he said he was going to lower taxes and broaden the base. you've said the same thing, those are my principles. i want to bring down the tax burden middle income families. i want to work together with congress. one way for instance would be to have a single number, make up a number. $25,000, $50,000. anybody can have...
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>> the same way ronald reagan did. ronald reagan in december of '79 was 30 points behind jimmy carter. and he made the case that the candidate with ideas, the candidate with conservative values, the candidate who could articulate and defend his position was in the end going to be the best candidate. the country decided he was right. i think if you look at newt.org and you look at all the things we've developed, i can go toe to toe with president obama on big things. there are big differences. you know, romney care and obama care were this far apart. a pretty big debate. i'm for dramatically lower taxes. the president is for much higher taxes. i'm for less regulation. the president's for more regulation. i'm for strength overseas to defend israel and to defend the united states. the president's for weakness overseas. i think you can draw a very strong case that in the end the dynamics of a gingrich/obama fight are much better for republicans than the dynamics of a romney/obama fight. >> and let me ask you, you released
>> the same way ronald reagan did. ronald reagan in december of '79 was 30 points behind jimmy carter. and he made the case that the candidate with ideas, the candidate with conservative values, the candidate who could articulate and defend his position was in the end going to be the best candidate. the country decided he was right. i think if you look at newt.org and you look at all the things we've developed, i can go toe to toe with president obama on big things. there are big...
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that was his point saying ronald reagan raised taxes. you were around when george h.w. bush raised taxes breaking his pledge. if you say i'm open toll tax increases does that make you a pariah in the republican party? >> no, but it gives you a weak negotiating position. reagan wrote this in his diary, one of the greatest mistakes he made was agreeing to the tax increase in 1982 in which the democrats promised they would give him $3 of tax cuts for all the spending cuts. after that he became much firm erl against any deal because he mistrusted them so deeply. i think frankly president george h.w. bush was badly ssked by his advisers. i think hurt him. that doesn't mean you shouldn't find compromise and doesn't mean you shouldn't be open to it. be very cautious because washington's a city which always wants more money. and the results we got last week, not just wisconsin but in my newsletter this week is about this, san jose, san diego, 66% of the people of san jose voted to change the government employee pension plan. 70% of the people of san diego voted to change the go
that was his point saying ronald reagan raised taxes. you were around when george h.w. bush raised taxes breaking his pledge. if you say i'm open toll tax increases does that make you a pariah in the republican party? >> no, but it gives you a weak negotiating position. reagan wrote this in his diary, one of the greatest mistakes he made was agreeing to the tax increase in 1982 in which the democrats promised they would give him $3 of tax cuts for all the spending cuts. after that he...
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course, was closer to ronald reagan era than i. >> mr. speaker, you heard the criticism that you weren't necessarily as close to the president as you suggest. >> well, it's increasingly interesting to watch the romney attack machine coordinate things. and all of a sudden today there are four different articles by four people different that show up. the fact is, i'm thrilled that michael rail began has endorsed me and will be campaigning with me here in florida. i remember very fondly in 1995, when we were at the goldwater institute and nancy reagan said, you know, barry gave ronnie the torch and now ronnie's passing the torch to newt and his team in congress. so, i think it's reasonable to say, and i think the governor said it fairly, i am vastly closer to reagan and in that period, the governor was a business person. in '92, he was donating to democrats in congress. in '94, running against teddy kennedy, he said, flatly, i don't want to go back to a reagan-bush era. there's a pretty wide gap. he's more mature, he's more conservative, i a
course, was closer to ronald reagan era than i. >> mr. speaker, you heard the criticism that you weren't necessarily as close to the president as you suggest. >> well, it's increasingly interesting to watch the romney attack machine coordinate things. and all of a sudden today there are four different articles by four people different that show up. the fact is, i'm thrilled that michael rail began has endorsed me and will be campaigning with me here in florida. i remember very...
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and on ronald reagan, newt gingrich is no ronald reagan. >> gingrich blamed it on the media attack machine. >> michael is here and will be campaigning with me here in florida. i remember fondly in 1985 at the gold w goldwater institute and nancy said that ronnie ga-- barry gav ronnie the torchf and now ronnie is passing the torch. >> newt gingrich is not the first person who argues over who carries the mantle best, but does it mean anything? ronald reagan was an icon, but he was elected president in the disco era, and many young republican voters have no idea, and they are into ron paul, and he barely mentions him. and ronald reagan dealt with the economic woes in his time by raising taxes. >>> and larry says that invoking reagan's name doesn't tell you anything, because it is a candidate might do, because reagan has everything to everything, but it is much like jfk to the democrats. >> if you want to talk more about it, go to facebook.com/carolcnn. i will read your responses later in the hour. >> it is interesting, because i remember reagan as a young person at the time, and it is almost
and on ronald reagan, newt gingrich is no ronald reagan. >> gingrich blamed it on the media attack machine. >> michael is here and will be campaigning with me here in florida. i remember fondly in 1985 at the gold w goldwater institute and nancy said that ronnie ga-- barry gav ronnie the torchf and now ronnie is passing the torch. >> newt gingrich is not the first person who argues over who carries the mantle best, but does it mean anything? ronald reagan was an icon, but he...
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ronald reagan changed his views. i have changed my views. >> is it weakness or strength in a leader to do that? >> i think it's absolute strength. who wants some bullhead who gets a position at age 30 and stays with it until they put him in the box, end of game. you don't want that. you want somebody always learning, always growing, always thinking. i absolutely don't think that's a -- i think it's a great political argument. politicians can throw that at him. >> the big political ground is the economy, can hardly be anybody el anything else. you're the perfect thing to ask. on the face of it, the white house should be getting a little more excited. jobless figures improving, threat of double digit recession receding, europe is a basket case but the american economy would appear to be stabilizing, is that what you think? >> absolutely. i started saying that in august when it was in the tank and saying it all along and now it's gaining momentum. however, to look at this recovery in some other context, we have 200,000
ronald reagan changed his views. i have changed my views. >> is it weakness or strength in a leader to do that? >> i think it's absolute strength. who wants some bullhead who gets a position at age 30 and stays with it until they put him in the box, end of game. you don't want that. you want somebody always learning, always growing, always thinking. i absolutely don't think that's a -- i think it's a great political argument. politicians can throw that at him. >> the big...
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ronald reagan won a majority of teachers. more teachers voted for ronald reagan than walter mondale, and this could happen again if people see the future of education in somewhat different and unconventional terms. it does require a change. it does require reform. but i think it's an appealing reform. there are states, like new jersey, where let's give chris christi credit, but let's give some of the union leadership credit, too, where they came to the table, they worked things out. nothing's going to happen if both sides are intransigent, and the unions will not cooperate. you will see them lose more and more members, as they are doing, and more and more students. >> bill bennett, thanks so much for being here today and we'll talk to you again very soon. we're going to keep talking about public schools, teachers' union s, teacher reform, this administration and what a romney administration would look like. if your child is in public school, there is a good chance that the teacher in front of the class is a member of the nea
ronald reagan won a majority of teachers. more teachers voted for ronald reagan than walter mondale, and this could happen again if people see the future of education in somewhat different and unconventional terms. it does require a change. it does require reform. but i think it's an appealing reform. there are states, like new jersey, where let's give chris christi credit, but let's give some of the union leadership credit, too, where they came to the table, they worked things out. nothing's...
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>> ronald reagan asked that question, it was 1980. that question is one that voters will be asking themselves on election day this year in november. we know this election is about the economy. what are the most important economic issues to voters and who wins on the issue that voters claim really matter. gallop asked just that question. i want to take you through the results. the higher up on the board an issue is, the more the boaters care about it. the issue where president obama holds the advantage are naturally further on the left. how far on the left they are is a sense of how much the president leads mitt romney by on those issues. issues where mitt romney leads are on the right of the screen. for example, president obama's widest margin of victory over romney is on the issue of who would improve living standards for the poorest of americans. 69% of americans think this is a very, very important issue and 62% of them think obama would do a better job than romney. right there is just one example. the problem with that, it finishe
>> ronald reagan asked that question, it was 1980. that question is one that voters will be asking themselves on election day this year in november. we know this election is about the economy. what are the most important economic issues to voters and who wins on the issue that voters claim really matter. gallop asked just that question. i want to take you through the results. the higher up on the board an issue is, the more the boaters care about it. the issue where president obama holds...
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. >> reporter: wisconsin has not voted republican in a presidential race since ronald reagan about three decades ago, but thanks to the recall gop officials built an infrastructure in wisconsin bigger than ever before. 25 offices like this are now open with 4 million republican voters identified. >> typically we would not get up and running in opening offices into march or april. all of these offices have been open in november or december, so we have a five or six-month jump over what we would ordinarily have. >> and right now mitt romney is not even close to having the passion walker has. >> take a look at this. the gop governor won by 53% and the exit polls show wisconsin voters favor president obama over mitt romney. why the contradiction? >> at katie's diner we found some answers. >> wisconsin has a lot of independent voters. >> reporter: you're one of them? >> yes. yes. >> reporter: so-called ticket splitters everywhere. >> i voted for barrett. >> reporter: and who do you plan to vote for in november for president? >> i balloon voting for romney for a purple state. i'm an independen
. >> reporter: wisconsin has not voted republican in a presidential race since ronald reagan about three decades ago, but thanks to the recall gop officials built an infrastructure in wisconsin bigger than ever before. 25 offices like this are now open with 4 million republican voters identified. >> typically we would not get up and running in opening offices into march or april. all of these offices have been open in november or december, so we have a five or six-month jump over...
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and ronald reagan. everyone said liberals were wimps, it was alan alda and mike dukakis. i'm heartened if we've gone from toothless in ari's eyes to ruthless. i'm rather be tough. these are tough times. this is romney's record. his sole calling card for the presidency i was a businessman, i was a ceo. so we are taking a look at that record. and it is very good in some ways. but appalling in other ways. and romney can't answer that. he can't defend the things he did. that's his problem. >> we got to leave it there. paul begala, ari fleisher, guys, thank you very much. let us know what you think, we're on facebook. follow me right now on twitter. @andersoncooper. >>> we're keeping them honest on capitol hill, five members of congress are showing the pictures right there -- have launched a campaign to root out muslim extremists in the u.s. government. they're saying there's this massive infiltration. they're naming names. including one of hillary clinton's top aides. the question is what evidence, if any, do they actually have? and if they're really concerned about this alle
and ronald reagan. everyone said liberals were wimps, it was alan alda and mike dukakis. i'm heartened if we've gone from toothless in ari's eyes to ruthless. i'm rather be tough. these are tough times. this is romney's record. his sole calling card for the presidency i was a businessman, i was a ceo. so we are taking a look at that record. and it is very good in some ways. but appalling in other ways. and romney can't answer that. he can't defend the things he did. that's his problem. >>...
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the second is you basically have a bargain which ronald reagan had, which is i will lower the rates and eliminate various deductions to get down to that rate. the governor himself last night said one of the business tax deductions might well be the oil and gas tax deduction which might well disappear as a part of a process of getting to lower rates. so we've seen it done before. it was done in '86 by ronald reagan in a bipartisan manner, and i think that you would see the governor, who has worked with a very democratic legislature in massachusetts, be bipartisan but let me give you one minor example of why i think it's sometimes frustrating to get into who's telling the truth. there are no definitions by which donald trump is a small business. >> wait, wait, wait. >> none. >> can i jump in here? >> well, there is. >> he took all the time last time. >> if you're a saudi sheikh, technically donald trump's a small businessman. there's an example for you. >> before we move off of this, because i see what has happened here, is there's another sliding away. nobody's explaining how this $5 tri
the second is you basically have a bargain which ronald reagan had, which is i will lower the rates and eliminate various deductions to get down to that rate. the governor himself last night said one of the business tax deductions might well be the oil and gas tax deduction which might well disappear as a part of a process of getting to lower rates. so we've seen it done before. it was done in '86 by ronald reagan in a bipartisan manner, and i think that you would see the governor, who has...
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nancy reagan said that ronald reagan's torch had been passed to me as speaker of the house and i was carrying out the values that he believed in. >>> is it a legitimate comparison and will it really matter really come election day? that is fair game next. but, first, a political junkie question. what percentage of voters identified themselves as conservatives in the florida gop primary? was it 55%, 61%, or 68%? shout out to the first person that brings me the right answer to @randikayecnn. ough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. it's clinically proven to provide clearer skin. [ rv guy ] enbrel may not work for everyone -- and may not clear you completely, but for many, it gets skin clearer fast, within 2 months, and keeps it clearer up to 9 months. [ male announcer ] because enbrel suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal, events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, and nervous system and blood disorders have occurred. before starting enbrel, your doctor should test you for tuberculosis a
nancy reagan said that ronald reagan's torch had been passed to me as speaker of the house and i was carrying out the values that he believed in. >>> is it a legitimate comparison and will it really matter really come election day? that is fair game next. but, first, a political junkie question. what percentage of voters identified themselves as conservatives in the florida gop primary? was it 55%, 61%, or 68%? shout out to the first person that brings me the right answer to...
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ronald reagan -- >> he was my age when he said that. >> ronald reagan -- >> it wasn't like he was young. this is what i find a bit odd. he was my age. i'm 47. i think he was about 47. it was 1994. that's what i find to be odd about it. he wasn't young. i couldn't imagine changing my belief about something like abortion at this age. >> sure. i think as we get older, i think we do change. when i say older, i'm talking about every year as we mature -- >> don't you think politicians do it for other reasons? are you not slightly suspicious -- >> no, i think governor romney, what you see with him is what you get. this is what he believes. this is his position. i appreciate his position where he is today on abortion. i appreciate the fact where he stands on the biblical definition of marriage between a man and woman because this is a huge issue in this election, whether people want to admit it or not, for evangelical christians, for churches across the board in the united states, this is the number one issue. >> gay marriage? >> the definition of marriage. god instituted marriage and for the p
ronald reagan -- >> he was my age when he said that. >> ronald reagan -- >> it wasn't like he was young. this is what i find a bit odd. he was my age. i'm 47. i think he was about 47. it was 1994. that's what i find to be odd about it. he wasn't young. i couldn't imagine changing my belief about something like abortion at this age. >> sure. i think as we get older, i think we do change. when i say older, i'm talking about every year as we mature -- >> don't you...
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something the republicans have done for years and romney isnot sounding like ronald reagan. ronald reagan in 1986 after cutting taxes for the working poor. >> the bill i'm signing today is not only an historic overhaul of our tax code and a sweeping victory for fairness, it's also the best anti-poverty bill, the best pro-family measure and the best job creation program ever to come out of the congress of the united states. >> okay. ben. that tax reform resulted in fewer people paying taxes. >> it did indeed, and it was the beginning of 30, 35 years of a market etiology in which our assumption was if we reduce the means with which government operates we're going to improve the economic fortunes of the country. that simply has not happened, and, in fact, what we've seen is we've seen tax rates go down, down, down. they were 90%, 80% on the rich in the '50s during the clinton era and 28%. today they are around 18%, but most of the rich like romney don't pay that. they pay even less so what we have is a trickle up theory. give tax breaks to the rich and they will take the money,
something the republicans have done for years and romney isnot sounding like ronald reagan. ronald reagan in 1986 after cutting taxes for the working poor. >> the bill i'm signing today is not only an historic overhaul of our tax code and a sweeping victory for fairness, it's also the best anti-poverty bill, the best pro-family measure and the best job creation program ever to come out of the congress of the united states. >> okay. ben. that tax reform resulted in fewer people...
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>> ronald reagan had a deeper recession under jimmy carter and ronald reagan recovered in three years. the fact is, by ronald reagan's -- by the time we got to august of '84, reagan was running on the slogan leadership that is working. can you imagine how he'd be laughed off the campaign trail if barack obama claimed the current economy was a proof that it's working? in fact, he tried it a few weeks ago. he had to then say he was taken out of context. this is failure of barack obama. he has had every single month 8% or more unemployment. the only reason it's that low is the economy has shrunk and people have dropped out of looking for jobs or he'd be at 13% or 14% unemployment. this is a tragic result. you at least have with romney and ryan a plan for the middle class, a plan for jobs and a plan for economic growth. and that's what this debate's going to be about. >> well, mr. speak, it's good to see you back in such feisty form. that rhino has really got you going today. maybe you should spend more time with the animals. i know you love them. >> come to the zoo with me sometime, we'l
>> ronald reagan had a deeper recession under jimmy carter and ronald reagan recovered in three years. the fact is, by ronald reagan's -- by the time we got to august of '84, reagan was running on the slogan leadership that is working. can you imagine how he'd be laughed off the campaign trail if barack obama claimed the current economy was a proof that it's working? in fact, he tried it a few weeks ago. he had to then say he was taken out of context. this is failure of barack obama. he...
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"barack obama, ronald reagan and the ghost of dr. king." >>> a dad who wires his son and sends him to school and then catches unbelievable bullying by a teacher on that tape. that father joins us live. >>> and in our "get real" this morning, there is crying in baseball. a fan catch a foul ball totally oblivious to the charming crying child next to them. >> he is wearing the hat of the best team in baseball. >> oh! >> that's just a fact. >> you're watching "starting point." [ male announcer ] from our nation's networks... ♪ ...to our city streets... ♪ ...to skies around the world... ♪ ...northrop grumman's security solutions are invisibly at work, protecting people's lives... [ soldier ] move out! [ male announcer ] ...without their even knowing it. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. yeah, that'll certainly stick with me. we'll take it. go, big money! i mean, go. it's your break, honey. same coverage, more savings. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> now it's time to get real. just give the kid the
"barack obama, ronald reagan and the ghost of dr. king." >>> a dad who wires his son and sends him to school and then catches unbelievable bullying by a teacher on that tape. that father joins us live. >>> and in our "get real" this morning, there is crying in baseball. a fan catch a foul ball totally oblivious to the charming crying child next to them. >> he is wearing the hat of the best team in baseball. >> oh! >> that's just a fact....
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it seems to me that we always go back to that ronald reagan question. are you better off -- in an election, are you better off now than you were four years ago? maybe this year we say should we be better off now than we are? which one of those questions rules this election? >> we haven't decided that yet. that's going to be up to the voters. the president wants you to look at that question in a larger context. you look at a seven minute video this week forward. now, candy, i used to be in television. i pay a lot of attention how to time things out in a video. the first 38 seconds of that seven-minute campaign video is what president obama inherited. forward starts in reverse. looking backward at what he inherited. that's the frame for the campaign. you may not be satisfied, but you could be a lot more dissatisfied. i face an enormous problem. mitt romney says things are bad, you're in charge, and you are to blame for the badness. >> let me ask you another question. just interesting to me. whenever you talk to people, they say watch what happens overseas
it seems to me that we always go back to that ronald reagan question. are you better off -- in an election, are you better off now than you were four years ago? maybe this year we say should we be better off now than we are? which one of those questions rules this election? >> we haven't decided that yet. that's going to be up to the voters. the president wants you to look at that question in a larger context. you look at a seven minute video this week forward. now, candy, i used to be in...
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reagan. >> in 1995, at the gold water institute, nancy reagan said that ronald reagan's torch had been passed to me as speaker of the house and i was carrying out the values he believed in. >> reporter: on another note, he had to concede he was wrong last week when he claimed his team offered several witnesses to abc news to refute statement by his ex-wife marianne in an enter view aired last week. the on witnesses were gingrich's two daughters from his first marriage who was both interviewed by the network. it's beginning to look like an yachtout assault with web ads, angry words, and and gingrich seems to be stirring up a running future with the republican establishment, apparently in the hopes he'll be able to lure some of those re l rebellious tea party types into his camp. >> thanks very much. >>> all right. this just coming into "the situation room." new information potential embarrassing information involving mitt romney's campaign. what is going on, jim acosta? >> reporter: the romney campaign is confirming that it is reviewing discrepancies that exist between the tax returns t
reagan. >> in 1995, at the gold water institute, nancy reagan said that ronald reagan's torch had been passed to me as speaker of the house and i was carrying out the values he believed in. >> reporter: on another note, he had to concede he was wrong last week when he claimed his team offered several witnesses to abc news to refute statement by his ex-wife marianne in an enter view aired last week. the on witnesses were gingrich's two daughters from his first marriage who was both...
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bush's fault, that's one thing, but after four years, can you imagine ronald reagan in 1984 saying, oh, it's all jimmy carter's fault? >> i want to move on because i want to ask you about mitt romney, but it is true that he came into a situation that no modern u.s. president has come into. >> and he has made it worse. he has made it worse. >> let me ask you, is there anything that mitt romney could do for you that would make you support him publicly more wholesomely? >> well, i thought the other day when i gave my speech suspending the campaign, i was pretty clear -- >> you said he's better than the president. >> but that's the first thing you want to say to people is, look, this is not some magic show. you're either going to get barack obama or you're going to get mitt romney. now, i don't see how any conservative, given that choice, could end up favoring barack obama, and that's what it's going to come down to. mitt romney has many strong things. first of all, he won. you know, i didn't win. rick perry didn't win. michele bachmann didn't win. rick santorum didn't win. you have to hav
bush's fault, that's one thing, but after four years, can you imagine ronald reagan in 1984 saying, oh, it's all jimmy carter's fault? >> i want to move on because i want to ask you about mitt romney, but it is true that he came into a situation that no modern u.s. president has come into. >> and he has made it worse. he has made it worse. >> let me ask you, is there anything that mitt romney could do for you that would make you support him publicly more wholesomely? >>...
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bush than to ronald reagan. in comparison, when you consider ronald reagan was actually willing to raise taxes and the spike in growth that you saw in the 1980s came after a big tax hike. what mitt romney is saying is, no, we can't make the wealthy pay more of their fair share. what we have to do is just cut taxes for everybody, cut tacks for corporations and by ing that by making sure that the people at the very top do better, somehow that will trickle down. what we know is that doesn't work. >> jim, on the campaign trail are you hearing a lot of chatter as well about the moderate mitt? we've heard bill clinton say, oh, the moderate mitt is back, oh -- it sort of comes off the president's post-debate thing about he is lying. that's not what he said. he has completely changed. a, has he completely changed, or have they, what we call putting emphasis on a different syllable? >> i put this to a romney aid viesor, and he pushed back on this. he said that the gvr is talking about bipartisanship more now that he has
bush than to ronald reagan. in comparison, when you consider ronald reagan was actually willing to raise taxes and the spike in growth that you saw in the 1980s came after a big tax hike. what mitt romney is saying is, no, we can't make the wealthy pay more of their fair share. what we have to do is just cut taxes for everybody, cut tacks for corporations and by ing that by making sure that the people at the very top do better, somehow that will trickle down. what we know is that doesn't work....
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if you think of ronald reagan and george bush sr., clearly the asians, certainly asian elites preferred them. what's the mood right now among asia's elite? >> well, let me emphasize one point. both romney and obama will be acceptable to the asians. you know, the day that both are very careful, pragmatic souls. romney has surged to the center after he got the republican nomination, and you're right, in general republicans have done very well in asia. at the same time to be absolutely accurate, there's no doubt there's a clear preference for obama in the region. how many presidents do you know have spent their childhood in asia. especially like indonesia, how many speak the asian and have a sensitivity that obama has. so i guess the clear preference, too, would be for obama over romney. >> the one country, i mean if you had a survey in which they asked countries whom you'd prefer, i think all the countries were polled. except one that preferred obama, that one country was pakistan, which i assume thinks it will have fewer drone attacks if romney is president, which i think may be a mistak
if you think of ronald reagan and george bush sr., clearly the asians, certainly asian elites preferred them. what's the mood right now among asia's elite? >> well, let me emphasize one point. both romney and obama will be acceptable to the asians. you know, the day that both are very careful, pragmatic souls. romney has surged to the center after he got the republican nomination, and you're right, in general republicans have done very well in asia. at the same time to be absolutely...
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ronald reagan had that kind of courage. that's why we did social security reform under ronald reagan, by the way with a democrat house. here is barack obama because he's got a republican house acts like he can't get anything done. he won't lead. ronald reagan never felt that way. and thank goodness bill clinton never felt that way. just because the other party's got one or both houses, the president doesn't get to complain all the time. presidents need to lead. that's what this election needs to be about, the kind of leadership we've had for the last three years. >> governor barbour appreciate your coming in today. good to see you. next relatives of a massacred family go to court where a judge sentences one of the killers to die. later, the head of one of wall street's biggest banks says the occupy protesters have a point. t 2 1/2 weeks of my life. and i'm not usually this impulsive, but, um... ♪ sarah... will you marry me? ♪ i think we should see other people. in fact, i'm already seeing your best friend, justin. hey,
ronald reagan had that kind of courage. that's why we did social security reform under ronald reagan, by the way with a democrat house. here is barack obama because he's got a republican house acts like he can't get anything done. he won't lead. ronald reagan never felt that way. and thank goodness bill clinton never felt that way. just because the other party's got one or both houses, the president doesn't get to complain all the time. presidents need to lead. that's what this election needs...
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reagan in the 49:1 blow out. if walker wins tomorrow, if you look at the electoral college map over there we have wisconsin leading blue for that reason. say governor walker, the republican governor wins tomorrow by a couple points or more. you say that's a good win. do we change that to toss up or no? the governor race is not a presidential race. >> i think you keep it as a toss-up but there is a glimmer of hope for the republicans there. this is going to be a test of republican intensity. it will a test whether they can impose the reforms that we think all governors need to do around the kun industry and survive. this is going to involve the party. this is important politically for republicans as well as in governing. >> it is a governing in this incredibly polarized environment with incredibly tough state budget issues, so gray davis was the last governor to have a recall election. he lost. mayor beheret is not arnold schwarzenegger maybe but but the history tells you he loses and the guy being recalled tends
reagan in the 49:1 blow out. if walker wins tomorrow, if you look at the electoral college map over there we have wisconsin leading blue for that reason. say governor walker, the republican governor wins tomorrow by a couple points or more. you say that's a good win. do we change that to toss up or no? the governor race is not a presidential race. >> i think you keep it as a toss-up but there is a glimmer of hope for the republicans there. this is going to be a test of republican...
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if you thing of ronald reagan and george bush senior, clearly the elites preferred them. what's the mood right now among its elite? >> well, let me emphasize one point. both romney and obama will be acceptable to them. you know, the day that both are very careful, prak mattic souls. at the same time there's no doubt there's a clear preference for obama in the region. how many presidents do you know have spent their childhood in asia. how many speak the asian agents and have a sensitivity that obama has. so i guess the clear preference, too, would be for obama over romney. >> the one country, i mean if you had a survey in which they asked countries whom you'd prefer, i think all the countries were polled. one country was pakistan, which i assume thinks it will have fewer drone attacks if romney is president, which i think maybe be a mistaken assumption. one place not polled that would also be possibly true, israel. would you say in israel romney would be preferred to obama? >> it's not that simple. i think they're just as divided. it's absolutely true that the israeli cent
if you thing of ronald reagan and george bush senior, clearly the elites preferred them. what's the mood right now among its elite? >> well, let me emphasize one point. both romney and obama will be acceptable to them. you know, the day that both are very careful, prak mattic souls. at the same time there's no doubt there's a clear preference for obama in the region. how many presidents do you know have spent their childhood in asia. how many speak the asian agents and have a sensitivity...
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someone was talking today about when ronald reagan ran against jimmy carter. jimmy carter had seemed inevitable coming in. ronald reagan actually they compared him to mitt romney how he had done pro-choice legislation in california. he had done all these things but became known for something very different. >> "wall street journal" today. >> an interesting story. >> reagan didn't look like the obvious electable candidate. romney doesn't look like the obvious electable candidate but reagan grew a lot. >> i don't think anybody's going to drop out after tonight. if you're newt gingrich and you're rick santorum and you're heading into alabama and mississippi, not exactly strong territory for mitt romney. you're saying, you know what, i ought to hang around. by the way they've got the super pac money that can back them up. >> and newt gingrich is hoping to be reborn yet again. >> when you run for president you've got a fairly healthy ego. >> really? >> these guys ain't getting out. each one of them this i can win the other guy's a clown, he can't win. therefore i'm
someone was talking today about when ronald reagan ran against jimmy carter. jimmy carter had seemed inevitable coming in. ronald reagan actually they compared him to mitt romney how he had done pro-choice legislation in california. he had done all these things but became known for something very different. >> "wall street journal" today. >> an interesting story. >> reagan didn't look like the obvious electable candidate. romney doesn't look like the obvious...
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working with ronald reagan in the early '80s, we'd very simple formula, sound money, lower taxes, less red tape, more american energy and actually praise people who create jobs. that formula, led by august of 1983, to 1,300,000 jobs being created in one month. six times the number they are going to create this month. >> he went the "today" show right after he was inaugurated and he said if i can't turn this economy around in three years, i will be looking at a one-term proposition and we are here to collect. we are here to collect. we are taking it back. >> governor romney boasting of his record of turning around troubled companies when he headed bain capital. he is staking his campaign on the contrast, as he sees it between his performance as a business executive and president obama's record as chief executive. >> now, i don't happen to think that barack obama is a bad guy, i just don't think he has a clue. i -- and having never worked in the private sector, never having had a real job, it is not a surprise he doesn't know how to create a real job. >> i happen to think that if you wan
working with ronald reagan in the early '80s, we'd very simple formula, sound money, lower taxes, less red tape, more american energy and actually praise people who create jobs. that formula, led by august of 1983, to 1,300,000 jobs being created in one month. six times the number they are going to create this month. >> he went the "today" show right after he was inaugurated and he said if i can't turn this economy around in three years, i will be looking at a one-term...
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whatever happened to ronald reagan's 11th commandment, shall not speak ill of another republican. it is hard to figure out which metaphor to go with, the uncivil war in the land of lincoln or the chicago way politics. and in the last 24 hours you heard rick santorum respond to the economic lightweight tag that mitt romney tried to hang on him by calling mitt romney a wall street finance ear and releasing a statement saying he has no core. earlier today saying as you mentioned a few moments ago saying he abandoned freedom and the rick santorum in i campaign isn't taking this lying down. they have gone after rick santorum as late as this afternoon with a web video they put out to reporters referring to a rick santorum statement at a town hall in moline, illinois, earlier this afternoon where rick santorum said i don't really think about the unemployment rate, i don't think it is important in this campaign, and the romney people are basically trying to turn it into rick santorum's i like being able to fire people and the only relief to voters in illinois is that the primary is tomorr
whatever happened to ronald reagan's 11th commandment, shall not speak ill of another republican. it is hard to figure out which metaphor to go with, the uncivil war in the land of lincoln or the chicago way politics. and in the last 24 hours you heard rick santorum respond to the economic lightweight tag that mitt romney tried to hang on him by calling mitt romney a wall street finance ear and releasing a statement saying he has no core. earlier today saying as you mentioned a few moments ago...
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. >> look at what ronald reagan and tip o'neill did. they worked together to broaden the base and lower tax rates. what we're saying is, here is our frame work. lower taxes 20%. 1.1 million in loopholes and deductions. deny those loopholes and deductions to higher-income taxpayers so more income is taxed, which has a broader base of taxation. and here is why i'm saying this. what we're saying -- >> i hope i get time to respond to this? >> you will get time. >> we want to work with congress, that means specifically. >> no specific. >> what we're saying is lower tax rates 20%. >> and you guarantee this math will add up. >> six studies have guaranteed and said this math adds up. >> let me translate. >> i'll come back in a second, right? >> i was there when ronald reagan you gave tax rates, he gave specifics of what he would cut in terms of taxan expenditures. 90% of small businesses in america make less than 250,000. let me tell you who other small businesses are. hedge funds, that make $600, $800 million a year. that will count as small b
. >> look at what ronald reagan and tip o'neill did. they worked together to broaden the base and lower tax rates. what we're saying is, here is our frame work. lower taxes 20%. 1.1 million in loopholes and deductions. deny those loopholes and deductions to higher-income taxpayers so more income is taxed, which has a broader base of taxation. and here is why i'm saying this. what we're saying -- >> i hope i get time to respond to this? >> you will get time. >> we want to...
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ronald reagan knew that. ronald reagan said support the nominee of the party. had we supported the nominee of the party in 2008, john mccain would have been the president of the united states of america. he wasn't because we didn't. we need to be supportive of whoever that nominee is this time. do they all have problems? yes, everybody has problems. the only perfect person i know died on the cross 2,000 years ago. we need to get over it and understand that everybody's got problems. let's pick the best guy. let's get behind that person and win in november instead of this in fighting that's going on within this party, who's the best, who's the worst, what problems they have. 17 years ago, they would have given a bar mitzvah to newt gingrich for what he did for the republican party. now they would burn the chair he's in. >> on that bombshell, michael reagan, andrew breitbart, thank you very much indeed. >>> coming back after the break, two of the smartest guys around. ask them the big question tonight. how will south carolina actually vote? >>> i believe, if we ha
ronald reagan knew that. ronald reagan said support the nominee of the party. had we supported the nominee of the party in 2008, john mccain would have been the president of the united states of america. he wasn't because we didn't. we need to be supportive of whoever that nominee is this time. do they all have problems? yes, everybody has problems. the only perfect person i know died on the cross 2,000 years ago. we need to get over it and understand that everybody's got problems. let's pick...
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he compares himself to ronald reagan. >>> cnn brings you politics each sunday during this hour. weaver bringing you the 2012 presidential contenders in their own words. a poll shows the majority of republicans want santorum to stay in the race. in a speech thursday, santorum compared himself to ronald reagan. >> the existential threat to western civilization is now radical islam. and i'm not afraid to call it what it is. [ applause ] ronald reagan had the courage to stand up and counter to all of his advisers, and call the evil empire the evil empire. we need to call radical islam, and the radical bureaucracy in iran exactly what it is, evil, and that evil regime must be replaced by the iranian people with a government that reflects the values of the persian people. [ applause ] there's one candidate in this race who has just like reagan, dedicated a tremendous amount of their time and energy -- when i left the united states senate, i spent five years in a think tank traveling all over the country, and even some places around the world, lecturing on this issue. as reagan did, gi
he compares himself to ronald reagan. >>> cnn brings you politics each sunday during this hour. weaver bringing you the 2012 presidential contenders in their own words. a poll shows the majority of republicans want santorum to stay in the race. in a speech thursday, santorum compared himself to ronald reagan. >> the existential threat to western civilization is now radical islam. and i'm not afraid to call it what it is. [ applause ] ronald reagan had the courage to stand up and...
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successful pattern to follow, ronald reagan's. on the other hand, you had the debt limit talks in 2011 where president obama in the middle of talks never, until this day, has gotten specific. we don't know if he offered to raise the medicare retirement age. we don't know how much he said he would cut medicare and enact entitlement reform. so he did the opposite. he went into a serious negotiation not as a candidate but as the president and never got specific. it's one of the reasons we never got a big debt limit deal. so i think mitt romney actually is following the reagan pattern. the question is who when it comes to real negotiation with congress will follow through and get it done. i think mitt romney would be stronger at that. the president, if he could have done it, would have done it. >> secretary reish -- >> let me -- with due respect, with due respect to mr. fleischer, the fact is when ronald reagan was running we didn't have the kind of budget deficit we have right now. it's very -- >> that's not the point. >> you cannot
successful pattern to follow, ronald reagan's. on the other hand, you had the debt limit talks in 2011 where president obama in the middle of talks never, until this day, has gotten specific. we don't know if he offered to raise the medicare retirement age. we don't know how much he said he would cut medicare and enact entitlement reform. so he did the opposite. he went into a serious negotiation not as a candidate but as the president and never got specific. it's one of the reasons we never...
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my own sense is rick santorum is going to the ronald reagan playbook of 1976, when ronald reagan went to the convention against an incumbent republican president, gerald ford, and he lost at the convention. but you know what happened? four years later he got the republican nomination, went on to beat jimmy carter and became president of the united states. that's why i think we hear so much of rick santorum talking about ronald reagan, because he's looking ahead in my mind already to 2016. if romney gets the nomination this time and loses to president obama, i think santorum will certainly start spending as much time as he can over the next four years to try once again. >> well, we'll go now to john raymonder who is the senior aide to rick santorum. john, what do you make here tonight? you've lost three to nothing but a spirited speech from rick santorum tonight. how are you feeling? >> well, look, we knew that these -- we were playing on sort of mitt romney's turf, if you will, and we think that things dramatically change now. we get to go to our home state. mitt romney has already ha
my own sense is rick santorum is going to the ronald reagan playbook of 1976, when ronald reagan went to the convention against an incumbent republican president, gerald ford, and he lost at the convention. but you know what happened? four years later he got the republican nomination, went on to beat jimmy carter and became president of the united states. that's why i think we hear so much of rick santorum talking about ronald reagan, because he's looking ahead in my mind already to 2016. if...
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working with ronald reagan in the early '80s, we'd very simple formula, sound money, lower taxes, less red tape, more american energy and actually praise people who create jobs. that formula, led by august of 1983, to 1,300,000 jobs being created in one month. six times the number they are going to create this month. >> he went the "today" show right after he was inaugurated and he said if i can't turn this economy around in three years, i will be looking at a one-term proposition and we are here to collect. we are here to collect. we are taking it back. >> governor romney boasting of his record of turning around troubled companies when he headed bain capital. he is staking his campaign on the contrast, as he sees it between his performance as a business executive and president obama's record as chief executive. >> now, i don't happen to think that barack obama is a bad guy, i just don't think he has a clue. i -- and having never worked in the private sector, never having had a real job, it is not a surprise he doesn't know how to create a real job. >> i happen to think that if you wan
working with ronald reagan in the early '80s, we'd very simple formula, sound money, lower taxes, less red tape, more american energy and actually praise people who create jobs. that formula, led by august of 1983, to 1,300,000 jobs being created in one month. six times the number they are going to create this month. >> he went the "today" show right after he was inaugurated and he said if i can't turn this economy around in three years, i will be looking at a one-term...
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with ronald reagan and helped change washington in the 1990s as speaker of the house, somebody who is into changing washington, or do we want a massachusetts moderate who, in fact, will be pretty good at managing the decay, but has given no evidence in his years in massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure or change the government. let me be clear. i think it's important given all the things that were done in this state over the last few weeks. we are not going to go out and run nasty ads. we're not going to go out and run 30-second gut shots. but i do reserve the right to tell the truth. and if the truth seems negative, that may be more a comment on his record than it is on politics. so this is going to be a debate that begins tomorrow morning in new hampshire, and will go on for a few months. and i'm convinced that the republican party will pick an era of reagan, a committed conservative, and someone with a track record of changing washington. i want to say two last things. and i think calista will join me in both of these. the first is, an
with ronald reagan and helped change washington in the 1990s as speaker of the house, somebody who is into changing washington, or do we want a massachusetts moderate who, in fact, will be pretty good at managing the decay, but has given no evidence in his years in massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure or change the government. let me be clear. i think it's important given all the things that were done in this state over the last few weeks. we are...
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>> reagan, reagan, reagan, reagan -- >> ronald reagan! >> the winner of the reagan speed round is jon huntsman. >> hey, guys -- >> herman cain, get out of here. >> riding in primetime. >> herman, go! >> do you think it would be possible to do something like this and these guys always so funny. but particularly this race, to a large degree, has kind of had elements of that. >> it has been described as a reality show. why not? kind of an "american idol" or who gets voted off the debate stage this week. why not a comedy series? it's really incredible the way this has become a form of pop culture as well as a political exercise. >> people ask all the time, is it too late for somebody to get in? >> there you go. >> cold in new hampshire. >> herman cain is going to get the face tattoo. >> does this kind of thing -- >> might be kind of a -- >> how funny is larry king? i mean, he was, i think he's having such a good time. the whole thing is so hyst hysterical. >> a nice serious edge there. how often can you say ronald reagan. >> they're mocking a
>> reagan, reagan, reagan, reagan -- >> ronald reagan! >> the winner of the reagan speed round is jon huntsman. >> hey, guys -- >> herman cain, get out of here. >> riding in primetime. >> herman, go! >> do you think it would be possible to do something like this and these guys always so funny. but particularly this race, to a large degree, has kind of had elements of that. >> it has been described as a reality show. why not? kind of an...